Real Estate

April 1, 2020 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Habito, an online platform that streamlines the entire home mortgage process, has topped £4 billion in mortgage submissions, according to a Tweet from the company. Habito is a Proptech firm that was launched in 2016 “to end mortgage hell forever.” You have to love that…. Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 3:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, an online property financing marketplace, has joined TMA. According to a note from TMA, the addition of LendInvest is the latest in a series of lenders the Club has partnered with, as it continues to develop its lending proposition for brokers with landlord clients. TMA… Read More

March 26, 2020 @ 3:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

GroundFloor, a real estate investment platform, has added a new investment product that may appeal to individuals interested in shorter-term investments. The new product called GroundFloor Notes, is said to be similar to publicly issued, non-traded secured debt. The security includes a guaranteed rate of… Read More

March 26, 2020 @ 11:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Sourced Capital, a platform that facilitates property investment, is out with a note demanding that the UK government extend next month’s ISA deadline. Currently, the deadline is set for the 5th of April. Sourced Capital would like to see it moved to the 1st of… Read More

March 24, 2020 @ 7:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

CrowdStreet is one of a group of real estate crowdfunding platforms that got in early and appears to have established a sustainable model. Founded to democratize investment opportunity in commercial real estate, CrowdStreet provides direct access to a range of vetted, institutional-quality commercial real estate… Read More

March 20, 2020 @ 3:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bee Mortgage App, a U.S.-based mortgage mobile app, announced on Thursday it has extended its RegCF raise on Fundopolis, a recently approved funding portal. Founded in 2019, Bee Mortgage App claims to be the first eMortgage mobile app powered by VLO, a virtual loan officer…. Read More

March 20, 2020 @ 9:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Property finance platform LendInvest has completed its second securitization that was said to be oversubscribed during a time of intense volatility. LendInvest said that it securitized £285 million of prime buy to let (BTL) loans – 9 months after its first securitization. The first securitization… Read More

March 17, 2020 @ 1:08 am By JD Alois  |  

KlickOwn has launched its first security token offering for real estate in Germany. Launched in mid-2019, the first digital security is for a building based in Lüneburg, Germany. The offering is debt-based seeking up to €1.5 million. As of today, the offering has raised over €350,000…. Read More

March 16, 2020 @ 11:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Last month, it was reported that Prodigy Network – once a prominent real estate crowdfunding platform focused on prime Manhattan real estate- has endured some challenging times. Several lawsuits in 2019, and the reported departure of its founding CEO, have allegedly caused a certain amount… Read More

March 14, 2020 @ 3:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Assetz Capital has received £15 million in funding from British Business Investments (BBI). According to Assetz Capital, this is the first time a property-focused marketplace has received funding from BBI, a subsidiary of the British Business Bank. Assetz Capital states that the funding will support… Read More

March 14, 2020 @ 3:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PropertyGuru, an online property marketplace, revealed on March 12, 2020, that it will be  expanding into home finance with the launch of PropertyGuru Finance. According to a release, the proptech company’s management noted that it aims to help Singapore’s residents save money and have a… Read More

March 10, 2020 @ 7:44 am By JD Alois  |  

The former CBRE Senior Director and Head of Loan Advisory, Anurag Sharma, has joined LendInvest as Fund Manager. LendInvest is a profitable UK Fintech that has created a marketplace for property finance. According to LendInvest,  Anurag has worked with the company in an advisory capacity… Read More

March 8, 2020 @ 7:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Compound: Reach is an App-based real estate investment platform. The company is “re-imagining” the way people invest in real estate by enabling everybody to “participate in the growth and prosperity of the cities and neighborhoods they are helping to build.” The company currently lists several… Read More

March 5, 2020 @ 7:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Assetz Capital, a UK based peer to peer lender, has topped £1 billion in online lending. Assetz Capital surpassed £500 million in lending in June of 2o18 so the platform is picking up steam. Launched in 2013, Assetz Capital provides access to credit for SMEs,… Read More

March 5, 2020 @ 10:44 am By Barry James  |  

CC – UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Britain has up to 2 Million ‘mortgage prisoners’ in increasing financial stress through no fault of their own, a situation created, paradoxically, by bad, outdated regulation.  There have already been 7 attempted suicides in the UK Mortgage Prisoners… Read More

March 5, 2020 @ 8:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Pan-European marketplace for short-term SME property-backed loans EstateGuru announced on Thursday it has just approved and published the first German project on its funding portal. According to EstateGuru, the first German project is in Sindelfingen, which is close to Stuttgart, and the borrower is an… Read More

March 4, 2020 @ 1:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Roostify, a U.S.-based digital lending platform provider, announced on Wednesday it has extended its partnership with TD Bank to deliver its home equity solution to the bank’s digital home lending platform. Roostify reported that last year, it and TD Bank partnered to launch a digital… Read More

March 3, 2020 @ 11:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, Crowdfund Insider reported on the apparent downfall of a once high-profile real estate crowdfunding platform Prodigy Network. In 2019, its founder and CEO Rodrigo Niño said he was stepping aside following reports of a lawsuit affiliated with a project in Chicago. Things recently… Read More

March 3, 2020 @ 12:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

nu:move a “hybrid estate agent” has easily topped its £150,000 initial goal on Seedrs after receiving direct pre-registered investments of £500k. According to a social media post, nu:move hit the £150,000 goal seven days before a public launch. So what does nu:move do and where… Read More

March 3, 2020 @ 12:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Security Tokens for Real Estate. Red Swan, a commercial real estate marketplace, has reportedly tokenized $2.2 billion USD in real estate through the security token platform Polymath, according to a company representative. The $2.2 billion is said to represent 16 different Class A commercial properties… Read More